Place Your Bats.

The article outlines the study conducted by Detlev Kelm of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research on the vital role of bats of the tropical forests in Germany. Researchers found that bats can help reforest the tropics because their droppings help spread seeds beyond the forest edge. They installed simple towers made of sawdust and concrete near a Costa Rica nature reserve, which is ravaged by agriculture and logging, because they wanted to lure bats out of their normal forest habitat and into the disturbed regions, with no large, hollow tree trunks in which they can hang out during the day. With it, they were able to gather 10 species of bats, thus significantly increasing the number and types of seeds in the neighborhood.